MeMoMa — sex-realist feminism against self-identification

MeMoMa is a platform for sex-realist feminism. Essays, analyses and legal commentary exposing the erosion of women’s rights through self-identification — and restoring the language in which that debate can be held.

Profile

MeMoMa starts from a simple premise: women’s rights were historically established on the basis of sex, not self-chosen identity. Once the legal definition of “woman” is expanded to include any man who calls himself one, the foundation of those rights disappears. The platform publishes from feminist, legal and philosophical perspectives. Background on this approach can be found under gender and feminism.

Positions

• Sex is a biological fact, not a social construct that can be redefined away.
• Women’s spaces — shelters, changing rooms, prisons and sport — serve a purpose that cannot be replaced by rhetorical goodwill.
• The UK Supreme Court ruling (2025) recognises biological sex as a legal reality under the Equality Act.
• Sex realism is not an anti-transgender position: it does not challenge the existence of transgender people, but the disappearance of sex as a legal category.

Origins and background

MeMoMa is a Dutch-language website run by the Memoma Foundation. Its name is accompanied by the motto girl, mother, matriarch. According to its own description, the foundation advocates for the rights of women and girls and promotes clarity about sex in legislation, policy and language. The page about the founders names literary scholar Gerrie Strik and neurobiologist Johan Bolhuis, emeritus professor at Utrecht University. The advisory board includes British authors Kathleen Stock and Helen Joyce, as well as therapist Peter Jenkins. The British organisation Sex Matters is described as a sister organisation.

What the organisation does

The site consists of a blog with sections on articles, media, therapy and women, as well as a glossary, frequently asked questions and a newsletter. A separate page covers literary and philosophical research into androgyny and identity. There is also a list of opinion pieces previously published in Dutch newspapers and magazines, including pieces about women’s spaces and gender care. This is opinion journalism with a clear point of view. Read it alongside other external sources.

Articles in this hub

Related international voices

MeMoMa is part of a broader European landscape of sex-realist and parent-group voices. See also EGGÖ in Austria and Generazione D in Italy. The arguments are consistent across language borders: sex as reality, women as a category, evidence-based care rather than ideology.